Improved composition for preventing incrustation in steam-boilers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO TEMPLE, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNEGTIGUL ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND J. L.FITCH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVED COMPOSITION FOR PREVENTING lNCRUSTATlON IN STEAM-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,303, dated November29, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALONZO TEMPLE, of Bridgeport, in the county ofFairfieldand State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulComposition for Removing and Preventing the Incrustation ofSteam'Boilers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention has for its object to prevent the inerustation ofsteam-boilers, or to remove the same already formed therein, therebypreserving the boiler and rendering it more eflicient than it otherwisewould be.

To enable others to prepare my composition, I will proceed to fullydescribe my method of so doing.

To twelve parts of terra-japonica add three I parts of nut-galls bruisedto powder and one venting or removing incrustation of steamboilers.

ALONZO TEMPLE. Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, I-tUEUs SANFORD.

